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I started to see this really nasty issue a few weeks ago, now it is getting really a problem. I am basically using Espionage to have my mail folders encrypted and nothing more. Sometimes when I start Espionage (and only when I start Espionage my system completely freezes and I get the following traces:

25.11.11 16:59:11,999 com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper: /dev/disk4 Apple_partition_scheme
25.11.11 16:59:11,999 com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper: /dev/disk4s1 Apple_partition_map
25.11.11 16:59:11,999 com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper: /dev/disk4s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/EspionageMounts/chaplin1/3887606939/Mail Downloads
25.11.11 17:00:07,829 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502: ([0x0-0x3c43c4].com.apple.mail[43977]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail", ...): Permission denied
25.11.11 17:00:07,830 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502: ([0x0-0x3c43c4].com.apple.mail[43977]) Exited with code: 1
25.11.11 17:00:07,000 kernel: [iSpy.kext] WARNING (1440): timed out on (0xffffff802177cf88|18); denying pid=43977 access to: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
25.11.11 17:00:10,000 kernel: [iSpy.kext] WARNING (1440): timed out on (0xffffff80213b6788|2); denying pid=618 access to: /Users/chaplin1/Library/Mail Downloads
25.11.11 17:00:11,000 kernel: [iSpy.kext] WARNING (1440): timed out on (0xffffff801b0c1188|2); denying pid=22 access to: /Users/chaplin1/Library/Mail Downloads
25.11.11 17:00:31,000 kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
25.11.11 17:01:04,000 kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
25.11.11 17:01:10,000 kernel: [iSpy.kext] WARNING (1440): timed out on (0xffffff80239ca888|2); denying pid=618 access to: /Users/chaplin1/Library/Mail Downloads

My system then becomes only accessible per SSH and the only thing I can do is a shutdown which after 15 minutes has still has not completed.

I have a second little issue, but nothing compared to the crash one. I have Growl 1.3.1 on my system, but Espionage does not recognizes it, nor can it use it.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Hi Greg,

unfortunately this is not happening when starting but anytime after that, it can be hours after the last boot, there is no obvious pattern. I have only noticed that until now, iTunes was always started when this occurred. I think this is very very strange that it freezes the whole system like this, even if Mail is having issue to find its folders, it should not kill the whole OS. Do you have any other recommendations that could apply ? I could have the folders mounted at start, but this is for me the whole point of having them encrypted. Any good idea is welcome.

Cheers,
J.B.

I was not using Grow with Espionage anyway because I realized a few months ago that it was not compatible, so this is not the issue. I might have found something that could be related to this issue. Since 10.7.2 I have been having some issues with some apps taking too long to start, the reason is a bug in Lion with iCloud and Documents over iCloud. It could be involved in a race condition with Mail and Espionage Helper. I have deactivated Documents in iCloud and will let you know if I still see the issue. No crashes yesterday.